Transom-lifter.



No. 772,600; PATENTED OCT. 18, 1904.

I w. T. ADAMS.

TRANSOMLIPTER.

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No. YE/2,600. Patented October 18, 1904. UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM T. ADAMS, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CONSOLIDATED HARDWARE COMPANY, CORPO- RATION OF NEW JERSEY.

TRANSOM-LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '7 72,600, dated October 18, 1904.

. Application filed March 21, 1904. Serial No. 199,102. (No model.)

To whom it y con/067%: verse pin-hole through which, as shown in Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. ADAMs, a Figs. 1, 2, and 3, an eye-pin 4 passes. This 5 citizen of the United States of America, and slide-block moves upon a guideway, which,

aresident of the city of Reading, in the county as shown, is formed by a plate 5, screwed of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have inagainst the side wall 0 of the door-aperture vented certain new and-useful Improvements and having its side edges 6 6 spaced sufficiently in Transom-Lifters, of which the following is away from the wall-s'urfaceto permit the free a specification. engagement therewith of the inwardly-turned My invention relates to transom lifters or flanges 7 7 upon the slide-block. The con- 1 adjusters; and it consists in'the improved connecting-link 8, between the transom-bracket necting mechanism between the transom- D and the slide 3, is formed, as usual, of a bracket and the vertically-movable oper'atinground rod with oppositely-bent right-angled rod, as particularly described hereinafter in ends 9 and 10. One of these ends engages connection with the accompanying drawings, the apertured end of the bracket D, and the 5 the novel features being specifically pointed other is connected with the slide-block. In

out in the claims. T T the arrangement indicated in Figs. 1, 2, and

One important object and effect of the in- 3 this link connection is made to the aper- 5 .vention is to adapt the improved mechanism tured end 11 of the transverseeye-pin 4: in for convenient use upon the jamb-lining or the block, thus permitting of the freeturn- 2O sides of doorways, as well as upon the inner ing of both ends ofthe link in its connection face, as usual. to the bracket and block, respectively.

Figure 1 is a partial cross-sectional-view of It will be noticed that in the arrangement 7 0 a transom window and frame in which my imshown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the swing of the proved transom operating mechanism is link in operating the transom-window is in a 2 5 shown applied to the side wall of the recessed plane parallel with the face of the guide-plate doorway. Fig. 2 is a partial inside elevation 5. When, however, the'mechanism is applied corresponding with Fig. 1. I Fig. 3 is a secto the inner face of a door-frame instead of tional plan View taken on the line 8 3 of Fig. to the side 0 of a door-aperture, as hereto- 1. Fig. A is a sectional plan view showing fore specifically described, the swing of the 3 my improved mechanism applied'to the inner link will require to be in a plane at right anface of a door-frame. gles to the face of the guide-plate 5. This A indicates a transom-window, which in-the will be readily understood from inspection of present instance is representedas being piv- Fig. A, in which the guide-plate 5 is fixed to oted at a intermediately ofits height, though the inner face, as stated. In order that my 35 it will 'be understood that my invention is improved mechanism may be utilized with equally applicable to differently pivoted or equal facility and satisfaction in such cases,

hinged transom-windows. one of the right-angled ends of the connect- 5 B indicates the transom-bar, beneath which ing-link is adapted to also fit the transverse is swung the door, and O is a side wall of a pin-hole in the slide-block and to serve as a 4 door-aperture to which my improved transubstitute for the eye-pin 5 in connectingthe' som-operating mechanism is applied. operating-rod 1 thereto, as shown in Fig. 4:,

D is the usual bracket upon'the inner face, thus permitting the link to swing freely in 9 of the transom-window, to which the operatthe right-angled plane referred to, and thereing mechanism is connected. by enabling the same mechanism to be used 45 The vertically-movable operating-rod 1, of for operating all transom-windows no matter Which the upper portion only is shown, is in what relation thereto the operating-rod and formed with an eye-head 2, by means of which guideway are arranged. 5 it is attached to a slide-block 3, having a trans- The construction particularly shown and described may obviously be modified in mutters of detail Without departing from my invention.

What I claim is- 1. The combination With a transom-bracket and its connecting-link, of aguideway, a slideblock on said Way, an operating-rod for said block, and an eye-pin in said blockadapted to serve as a connection for both the link and the operating-rod.

2-. A transom-adjusting mechanism con1- prising a vertically-movable operating-rod, a slide-block, a guideway for said block, a transom-brecket, an eye-1 )inforsaid block adapted to serve as a connection for the operating- 5 rod, and a bracketconnecting link having right-angled ends adapted to engage either the eye-pin or the slide-block opening for said pin.

Signed at Reading, Pennsylvania, this 16th 20 day of March, 1904:.

\VILLlAlYI 'l. ADAMS \Vitnesses:

D. M. STEWART, W. G. STEWART. 

